2010/9/13 András Murányi <
muranyia@gmail.com>:
> Hmm, hmm. That means switching to Fedora, right?
>
> 2010/9/13 Bernardo Barros <
bernardobarros2@gmail.com>
>>
>> Planet CCRMA offers rt-kernel for x86_64 systems. Give it a try.
>>
>> 2010/9/13 András Murányi <
muranyia@gmail.com>:
>> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:59 PM, jm jones <
juanmjv@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi, usually I install the 64 bits version of, but the last time, I
>> >> dont remember why : ) (maybe to avoid any problems) I installed the 32
>> >> bits version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Is a repo of pd-extended for 10.04
>> >> available?
>> >> And about the 32 vs 64 bits, what are your choices? And what about
>> >> distros? Pure:dyne seems more lightweight with his xfce desktop,
>> >> however I have a good processor (core 2 duo intel e7200) and 2gb of
>> >> ram, planning an update to 6gb, so I dont know if xfce is a must for
>> >> me.
>> >> Im a "veteran" gnu/linux user, but the last years I was using OS X and
>> >> W7 for music making. In Linux I want to use pd, Renoise (its available
>> >> as 64 bits too), and wine for some vsts.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Hi There,
>> >
>> > I'm sort of a veteran too (started on IBM AIX in 1992, used Red Hat for
>> > a
>> > long time, then went back to Windows 98, later XP, which i gave up
>> > finally a
>> > few years ago).
>> > I'm using vanilla Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit with Gnome (and 2GB of memory),
>> > and my
>> > impression is that it's not the WM that makes things slow, but in the
>> > case
>> > of Pd, it's Pd itself. Read the archives on GUI<->core communication and
>> > Tcl/Tk weirdnesses. The 64-bit version of Pd is quite tidy now, well
>> > actually there was a time when it seemed to me a bit slower than the
>> > 32-bit
>> > version, but AFAIK there's no reason for that any more (?)
>> > With a decent CPU and that huge amount of RAM you (will) have, it really
>> > cannot be a question of WM whatsoever. Of course, the system has to be
>> > tuned
>> > for realtime, undisturbed audio usage, which may include getting rid of
>> > eye-candy functions, but i never experienced a problem with those. After
>> > all, they use openGL, don't they?
>> > The same stands for pure:dyne; at the core it's a linux kernel, and what
>> > you
>> > install on (or remove from) the top, it's up to you.
>> > The only thing i'm missing here on 64-bit is the RT kernel. Once i find
>> > a
>> > nice quick way, i'll grab it, but i'm not really into home-brewing my
>> > kernel. :)
>> >
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